He reprobated the Yancey movement as leading to dissolution and a Southern confederacy.

The party rejected this caucus platform.

Should the majority, he asked, surrender to the minority?
Davis, replying on the 17th, contended that Douglas had, on the Kansas policy of the Administration, put himself outside the Democratic organization.

He desired no divided flag for the party.

He preferred that the Senator's banner should lie in its silken folds to feed the moth; "but if it impatiently rustles to be unfurled in opposition to ours, we will plant our own on every hill." Douglas retorted, and again attacked the caucus dictation.